The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 34 is the first book in Sue Townsend's brilliantly funny Adrian Mole series Friday January 2nd I felt rotten today It's my mother's fault for singing ' My Way' at two o'clock in the morning at the top of the stairs Just my luck to have a mother like her There is a chance my parents could be alcoholics Next year I could be in a children's home Meet Adrian Mole a hapless teenager providing an unabashed pimples-&-all glimpse into adolescent life Writing candidly about his parents' marital troubles the dog his life as a tortured poet & 'misunderstood intellectual' Adrian's painfully honest diary is still hilarious & compelling reading thirty years after it first appeared Bestselling author Sue Townsend has been Britain's favourite comic writer for over three decades'I not only wept I howled & hooted & had to get up & walk around the room & wipe my eyes so that I could go on reading' Tom Sharpe'A satire of our times Very funny indeed' Sunday Times ' We laugh both at Mole & with him A wonderful comic read that like all the best comedy says something rather meaningful' Heat Sue Townsend is Britain's favourite comic author Her hugely successful novels include eight Adrian Mole books The Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman (Aged 5534) Number Ten Ghost Children The Queen & I Queen Camilla & The Woman Who Went to Bed For a Year all of which are highly acclaimed bestsellers She has also written numerous well-received plays She lives in Leicester where she was born & grew up ...

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 34 is the first book in Sue Townsend's brilliantly funny Adrian Mole series Friday January 2nd I felt rotten today It's my mother's fault for singing ' My Way' at two o'clock in the morning at the top of the stairs Just my luck to have a mother like her There is a chance my parents could be alcoholics Next year I could be in a children's home Meet Adrian Mole a hapless teenager providing an unabashed pimples-&-all glimpse into adolescent life Writing candidly about his parents' marital troubles the dog his life as a tortured poet & 'misunderstood intellectual' Adrian's painfully honest diary is still hilarious & compelling reading thirty years after it first appeared Bestselling author Sue Townsend has been Britain's favourite comic writer for over three decades'I not only wept I howled & hooted & had to get up & walk around the room & wipe my eyes so that I could go on reading' Tom Sharpe'A satire of our times Very funny indeed' Sunday Times ' We laugh both at Mole & with him A wonderful comic read that like all the best comedy says something rather meaningful' Heat Sue Townsend is Britain's favourite comic author Her hugely successful novels include eight Adrian Mole books The Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman (Aged 5534) Number Ten Ghost Children The Queen & I Queen Camilla & The Woman Who Went to Bed For a Year all of which are highly acclaimed bestsellers She has also written numerous well-received plays She lives in Leicester where she was born & grew up ...

The hilarious international bestselling novel that has had pensioners ditching their sticks & zimmers to follow the age-defying youth inducing antics inside The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen 83 14 Years Old ' Terrific This geriatric Adrian Mole made me laugh' Woman & Home ' Funny & touching' BBC Radio 4 Meet Hendrik Groen An octogenarian in a care home who has no intention of doing what he's told or dying quietly To that end he creates the Old-But-Not-Dead Club & with his fellow members sets about living his final years with careless abandon Such anarchism infuriates the care home director but pleases Eefje the woman who makes Hendrik's frail heart palpitate If it's never too late to have fun then can it ever be too late to meet the love of your life? ' So much more than just a comedy' John Boyne 'A story with a great deal of heart' Graeme Simsion The Rosie Project ' Amusing & wickedly accurate A handbook of resistance for our time' Sunday Express ' Very funny' Jeremy Paxman Financial Times ...

In the grand tradition of The Diary of a Nobody comes the secret diary of the twenty-first century's most unlikely leader Jeremy Corbyn Jeremy Corbyn is a committed allotment holder expert jam maker dedicated manhole cover inspector oh & occasional Leader of Her Majesty's Opposition 272 pages Young Lucien ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play All four parts of the ITV miniseries based on true events & starring James Nesbitt & Genevieve O& Reilly Colin Howell (Nesbitt) is a respected dentist who is active in the community & the local Baptist church When the virtuous Colin meets Sunday school teacher Hazel Buchanan (O& Reilly) the pair embark upon a passionate affair in which they abandon their strict Christian morals Their intense relationship reaches its climax when they begin plotting to kill their spouses Lesley (Laura Pyper) & Trevor (Glen Wallace) ...

Forgive your enemies they say Keep their addresses & keep notes I say In Access All Areas you'll learn how to buy three Premier League points for just GBP25000 what it's really like to face a Football Association disciplinary hearing & why every footballer in the country shuddered when they heard about the Ched Evans case Add to that The Secret Footballer's no-holds-barred tour of the country's Premier League clubs
- telling us what it's like to play in each ground & revealing the one that all players really hate to go to
- & you get an entertaining glimpse into a world that's normally off-limits to the fans Unapologetically opinionated witty & honest Access All Areas is every thinking fan's guide to the beautiful game I am The Secret Footballer & all bets from here on in are off

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The Secret Footballer is 'recklessly honest' (Loaded); 'insightful & opinionated' (Morning Star); 'the Banksy of the beautiful game' (Shortlist) Since his first book was published in 2012 The Secret Footballer has been able to take the reader behind the scenes of footballers' lives like no other player has been able or will ever be able to do Anonymity has been a potent weapon in revealing the real world of football stars & five years on he has now penned the work that all his fellow professionals have been urging him to do from the start The Secret Footballer What Goes on Tour & it isn't going to stay on tour any more From Marbella & Ibiza to Dubai & Las Vegas The Secret Footballer lays bare the worst most embarrassing & most hilarious excesses of these fit & mostly fickle young men whose million-pound salaries to use his own words 'open up a host of recreational opportunities' Fuelled by rampaging desires for sex drugs booze & rock'n'roll these footballers think up ever more extreme ways of splashing the cash & needless to say it doesn't always end well ...

Since his first book was published in 2012 The Secret Footballer has been able to take the reader behind the scenes of footballers' lives like no other player has been able or will ever be able to do 352 pages The Secret Footballer ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play The Classic Tale As You&ve Never Imagined It Experience the magical world of The Secret Garden as never before in this beautifully filmed production of the classic tale When her parents are lost in a tragic airship accident Mary Lennox must seek comfort in the strange & forgotten corridors of Misselthwaite Factory While investigating the secrets that lie within the crumbling walls Mary makes unexpected friendships & discovers the magic & mystery of The Secret Garden Actors Glennellen Anderson Erin Leigh Bushko Mark Ashworth Directors Owen Smith Language English Number of discs 1 ...

Harper Collins is proud to present its range of best-loved essential classics & Where you tend a rose my lad A thistle cannot grow& Orphaned & sent to live with her uncle in his austere manor on the moors Mary Lennox is a lonely & unhappy child A meeting with Dickon her servant&s brother begins her adventure & it is through their friendship & her relationship with her troubled hypochondriac cousin Colin that she begins to learn about herself Their lives all begin to change when a Robin shows Mary the door to a mysterious secret garden ...